God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
What gifts have I received? Answer these questions:
1. What can I accomplish with my present abilities?
2. What type of service am I personally drawn to?
3. What have I been educated or trained to do?
4. What gifts do my pastors and church leaders think that I possess?
5. What does my family (who should know me best) think that my gifts are?
6. What specific needs are there in the church body?
7. Have I attempted to use a gift in a certain area and have regularly failed?
8. When have I met with success in attempting to exercise a gift or meet a need in the body?
9. Have I asked my closest friends to honestly help assess where I could most successfully serve?
The present toleration of abortion is deeply rooted in this new kind of individualism and personal rights movement. The pro-abortion people always argue that a woman has a right to control her own body and therefore she has the right to abort any intrusion into that body. Yet society recognizes rights must be limited when they conflict with another person’s rights. And certainly the person in the womb of the mother has rights.
